Very good, Steve. I heard the program in my car via smartphone patched into the car's audio system. Sounded great - a very enjoyable program, as usual. I much prefer the playlist method because the full information shows up on the http://electro-music.com/radio page.

Another big plus is that when listening to the playlist using Winamp, I can see the names of the files, and go back and listen again, or save. Wowzer!

Not to mention, if you don't like a track for whatever reason, you can hit the >> button. _________________--Howard
my music and other stuff

nice selection of tracks,. but as a show I don't really like it this way. There is not much of a difference
between it and just listening to the playlist (except that it's your selection) , I always enjoy your comments in between tracks

I also noticed that a lot of tracks only showed a name in winamp no artist, but that might have
to do with the way they are tagged (or rather lack of), offcourse you will now have info during a rebroadcast aswell,
which isn't the case with a recorded show.
hmm but now I think about it that only works if when streaming the show, or you would have to post it as
a playlist + all the tracks which would be a pita to download.

I also noticed that a lot of tracks only showed a name in winamp no artist[...]

Yes ... the radio is set up to use the file name for meta information and not any embedded (mp3) tags. The reason for that is that the radio page and the chat info thingies use the file name to get to forum information.

So those would be the places to look for extra info.

For on demand streams maybe I could get some extra meta info into the PLS file, although in that case winamp really should use the meta info present in the audio file ... and a lot of audio files do not have tags in them ... so I'm not sure the extra information would be used then. Anyway, should not be too hard to experiment a bit with that as the information needed is already present in the cache file I think.

Hmm .. what was the question again _________________Jan
(yawning shifts perceived pitch, making things more interesting)

Several months ago for my weekly Organized Sound show, I tried an experiment using the wonderful new playlist system designed and implemented by Jan. Welcome to Zone 11712 features music I have done, including improvisations from past episodes of Organized Sound, collaborations with others (including latency jams and remixes of my material by others), rehearsal sessions, open-port noodling, outtakes, tunes from my personal archives, etc.

Each week I scoured works done as MusicMan11712 (aka Dr. Steve) to play music that had not yet been played in the "Welcome to the Zone" series, with the exception of short-tunes/fillers and an occasional repeated song to try to fit the two-hour slot as closely as possible. Occasionally, if there was no show afterwards, The Zone ran a little longer.

Since the shows are played by the playlist system, there is no whole show file to post. However, all of the music is posted in the electro-music archives.*

Anyhow, thanks for listening.

Steve

*UPDATE: For deeply personal reasons, I removed most of the audio files I had posted. If you were around in those days and listened, as I said, ". . . thanks for listening."Last edited by MusicMan11712 on Mon Nov 21, 2016 11:46 am; edited 1 time in total

I haven't been doing the show for several months as everyone who used to listen knows.

It had become an issue of competition for limited resources having to spend more and more time looking for material, since less material seemed to be turning up in the electro-music forum. That required looking elsewhere, checking licensing details, and finding a much smaller percentage of music I was into than I could find by simply reviewing what was posted by members here.

As listeners know, at one point I came up with the "Welcome to Zone 11712" theme--using the excellent new playlist system to program new shows on a weekly basis of music from MusicMan11712. It consisted of improvs from the "Organized Sound with Dr. Steve" shows, other improvs I did either on the open port or my port (not as part of the show), PHOBoSized collaborations, excepts from collaborative jams, and older material I discovered on my hard drive.

Then (a few months ago), I got a new sound card, installed it, had it crash, and for a long time was not able to get my PC's audio working without generating periodic noises whenever the system was doing something--including text scrolling in chat. My plan had been to fix that and to rethink the show.

In the meantime, (1) I have missed creating music and (2) I have noticed how wonderful a job Robsol has been doing updating the playlist by adding newly posted material. So, the future of the "Organized Sound" show is very much up-in-the-air.

From my point of view, it has been a great run. I really enjoyed going through the electro-music holdings (newly posted and historical) to select and play tunes. It is a great treasure chest of what I think of as high quality diversity in electronic music.

As well, I have greatly enjoyed the flexibility to do improvs when the muse pushed me to be creative. When I did my first improv here (NYE 2009), I was filled with terrifying anxiety. And I am very grateful for the opportunity over the years to work on that and develop a certain level of increased comfort by doing the improvs on the show.

To all that listened faithfully as your schedules permitted, thanks!! The encouragement of your listenership and participation in chat is much appreciated.

Steve

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UPDATE:
I was starting to get back into doing music and was even thinking of doing some stuff on a regular basis again, but then a few people here got very ugly and no matter what I did and tried to ask management to do I could not escape the ugly, nasty, hostilities and offensive vitriolic rhetoric that almost seems like it was calculatedly deliberate.

There are a few here who have been very supportive over the years. To them I say, thank you.

In deleting my music and my shows, I was reminded of the support and also the amount of time and energy I put into helping to support and promote the music of others here. While I feel bad that the music I strung together is no longer available as a show, however most of the music I played was from the archives here and is still available for play on the streaming radio stations--just not mine.

Thank you for the many kind words from those who had kind words.Last edited by MusicMan11712 on Tue Nov 15, 2016 7:28 pm; edited 1 time in total

Thanks for the update Steve, and thanks for all the shows you have done. Due to the schedule, your show was the one I was able to listen to most often. I especially enjoyed the live improve performances.

I hope you sort out your soundcard issue and maybe do the odd live performance from time to time.

* Applause * for all of the great Organised sounds and Zone 11712 shows!!!!

It's perfectly natural to break off a routine, either by choice or chance. Give the system a new angle and other ways to come up with new stuff. It would be great to hear from you again at some point - both your great music and lovely radio voice - but only when that is what you feel like doing. _________________Antimon's Window@soundcloud@Flattrhome - you can't explain music

Thanks for the kind words, Jake and Stefan. I have been working on stabilizing my studio setup and hope to get back to creating new music and re-constructing some older, multi-tracked tunes (personal "old favorites") for new performance.

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